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Pope Francis proposes female deacons, married priests at Amazon synod
[FOXNEWS] Pope Francis, rounding out his synod of Amazonian clergy, announced Saturday that he would be reopening a commission to study the history of women as deacons in the early days of the Catholic Church.After calls by women for greater decision-making roles in the Church, the pope made the announcement at the end of his three-week assembly discussing issues facing the Amazon region, solutions to a shortage of priests, environmental protection and the role of women. Francis originally opened a commission to study the possibility of women in the role in 2016, but the commission ended its work without a consensus on the topic. A gathering of 181 bishops voted on 120 recommendations presented to the pope. The recommendation to re-examine female deacons passed the two-thirds vote threshold, 137 in favor and 30 opposed, according to the Wall Street Journal. Related: Pope Francis: 2019-10-17 Pope Announces Any Time Spent Watching 'The View' Counts As Time Served In Purgatory Pope Francis: 2019-10-10 Scalfari: Pope Francis Told Me That Jesus Incarnate Was a 'Man ... Not at All a God' Pope Francis: 2019-10-01 Pope Could Soon Say ‘I Do’ to Married Priests--and Open a Schism Posted by: Fred 2019-10-27 |
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